2 JANUARY 1953, Page 18

SIR,-1 am sure that Mr. Nicolson's very understandable decision will

leave everyone with a deep sense of personal loss; and I am sure that all readers of the Spectator will have developed an added high regard for the man whose never-failing weekly essay seemed to bring a sense of proportion to a hurried and busy life.—Yours faithfully, 19 Gosfield Road, Epsom, Surrey. P. L. SCARBOROUGH.

[We have received a niinber of letters to the same effect.—Editor, Spectator.]